Do you know what this is? This is The Heart from Auschwitz.
An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death.
On December 12, 1944, locked inside Auschwitz, Polish teenager Fania turned twenty. After spending a year in a concentration camp, Fania didn’t expect her birthday to even be remembered - but her best friend, Zlatka, risked everything to make her a birthday present, a paper heart.
Simply making the heart - or carrying it - could get either of them killed.
The heart was signed by many of their friends, bearing notes in Polish, German, French, and Hebrew that announced "When you get old, put your glasses on your nose, take this album in your hand and read my signature again,“ and “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” It was an act of great sacrifice and love for a friend.
Less than 40 days later, they began the Death March from Auschwitz to Ravensbruck, and from Ravensbruck to freedom. Fania carried the heart under her arm the whole time. And survived.
Fania donated the heart to the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center in 1988, where it is a featured piece of their exhibit. You can read more about the story of Fania and Zlatka
Meg Wiviott’s Paper Hearts, coming September 2015.
God. Even in great darkness there is such love.
the 75th aniversary of the liberation of auschwitz is in a couple of days (jan 27 2020) so I feel this is a good thing to have on your dash. Remember that every single victim and survivor of the holocaust was a person with so much love in their heart and so many storiees and interpersonal relationships like this.
listen if szn 2 of the witcher doesn’t have an episode where geralt finds out jaskier is in trouble and goes on a frantic mission to save him than I don’t want it
one time i got the stomach flu at a new years party and rang in the new year puking my guts out while some kid’s shitty boom box played i’m blue by eiffel 65 on repeat
when i was really little i didn’t understand the whole “body of christ” concept and so i asked my sunday school teacher if we were all part of jesus’s body how does he decide who will be his butt
she was like what the fuck
i wrote warrior cats fanfiction for english class
in grade seven i accidentally made the class think that i had a train fetish and in high school i still had people asking me if i legitimately wanted to fuck a train
i can’t remember how or why but i somehow managed to download the song i just had sex by the lonely island even though the computer had parental controls on it
one time i was reading star wars porn at the same time my roommate was reading the bible and i got a weird power trip from it
IN BIOLOGY CLASS I COMPLETELY FAILED A TEST ABOUT THE PARTS OF THE PENIS AND BALLS
